You're the Apple of my eye, the laces of my shoes, the breath of calm after an anxiety attack or heavy cry. You're the hand on my leg telling me I'm safe, the magnet which magnetised the needle in my homemade compass. You're the net of a dreamcatcher, the final **** after a long and exhausting hunt. You're the sensation of being warm and ***** after a cold and wet day out in the snow, you're the report card with straight A's. You're there toe beans of a cute cat and the contagious laughter of a newborn too naive to realize that everyone in the room is only laughing because they keep laughing harder, the positive feedback loop exhausted by cheeks too tired to smile and a diaphragm too used to move.

The sensation of being tucked in, but not too tight. The phenomenon of waking up in your bed because you passed out on the couch and your dad carried you in.

You're the dream where you fall in love and everything is perfect and great, but when you wake up you carry over that charm into your day to day life and everything starts to go your way. You're the fortune cookie with a fortune of the numbers 3,4,8,17,20,26,38,48,70 and the phrase saying "your long held-onto grievances will vanish soon, you will find your peace."

You are the learning, growing pupil of the Master of the Way. You are the concept of fairness and rightfulness, of non-ownership and laissez-faire government and home. You are the beacon, cooking a warm meal at the stove, so tuned into her world. You are the day dream, where the ordinary melts and the extraordinary takes over our surroundings and enchants our creativity while boosting and fanning that little flame in our hearts that keeps us going.

You are the first kiss of morning, with morning breath so stagnant from an unexpected ****** release at 4 am and an explosion of positive neurotransmitters, the development of trust in each other's arms. You are the attempt to synchronize heartbeats in a very tight spooning position. You paint the image of our energies moving in complex shapes before entering the other, circling inside and maturing, then entering back into the other. The ouroboros of emotion and trust and love.

You're what I see when I close my eyes, and you're what I want to see when I open them. You're the concept of someone I can truly let be. The independent, growing college girl with her whole life adventure ahead of her.

You're the angel on my shoulder which speaks to me words of reason and progress and helps me ignore this rotten goblin on the other shoulder. You're the voice I hear say "I really like them, honestly," when I see tracers in my vision.

You're a lighthouse in my mind. One safe thought, one place I can escape to for safety. But that's not really you, it's just my concept of you and my memories. But sometimes just that thought is enough to fuel it, because I'll be thinking of you more than I actually see you and I need to find the best way to deal with both.

I don't want to put you on some unreasonable pedestal and I don't think I have. I only truly mean like a third of what I said about the poetic "you are"s, because it would be unreasonably romantic to truly believe most of that. But I believe it in spirit and that's what matters.

You're the voice whispering me to sleep, and the reason I don't always have to wear ear plugs any more. You're the person I imagine running their fingers up my arms and into my hair when I watch ASMR vidoes. You trigger my ASMR and almost no one before you has been so successful in doing so. My body responds to you naturally in burst and quivers of euphoria and satisfaction, the curiousity of how you can pleasure and tingle me and how I can please you.

Rubbing your back and shoulders, popping your back ever so slightly, exploring the surface of your skin in every area. I want to learn and map your topography and dimensions and watch those change gradually over time as you mature into this yogi goddess with such a brain it's astounding.

You inspire me. You're such a hard worker and you're so much further than your circumstances could have put you. You're so strong Zo. Even if you feel like you're breaking sometimes, you're handling the pressure better than I ever could.

I'm grateful for my time with you, but I'm even more grateful for the peace you've helped bring to my tumultuous mind.

I hope you're getting just the most wonderful sleep. Dreaming of forgotten kindoms, songs never heard, places and euphorias never felt or synchronized with. You're a good person.

Thanks for putting up with my *******.You make me feel like I'm in some fantasy sometimes. A story book with fairies and some perfect ending or no ending.

The apricot tree,So solemn in its art of creation,Yielding fruit by square yard,And flower blossom come springHolding no pleasure in its perception.

If I am the apricot tree in the fields at dawn,You are the ladder,The picker,The cook,The sugar and panAnd the jar of apricot jam,

Preserved in its perfectionFor hungry mouth and seeking handsTo endulge in, come harvest.You are the countertop in the kitchenAnd the residue of spills upon it,Caused so carefree by fingers excitedTo savor God's giftOf orange fruitAnd good will.

You are the warm homeOccupied by voices and laughterAnd children so eager for the dayTheir screams of joy echo each room.

You are the eyes onlookingFrom inside the car,Gazing out a moving windowAt the bountiful apricot blossoms,You are the artist and beholder,The eyes of beautyWhich turn the tree's mundaneAnd ordinary lifeInto poetry and light of human love.The botanist, the lover of fruit and flesh,Picking perfect apricots,Plucking them not only at pure ripeBut all season,For the sake of texture and sweet.

For the tree,Bearing fruit and blossomHas transcended from routineTo holiday.

Such a pleasure,Being plucked and picked,Pleased and appreciated in true apricotPassion.

Resting my head on your lap was magic,Listening to all your syllablesAnd silent letters.Watching your lipsSo carefully as you tonguedThe notes of a forgotten poem.You turned words that I can read intoThe song of a choirAnd the language of romance,I could hear Camus and DescartesIn your voice,I could hear the timbre of your tongueEmbody the tortured author's pleas.

I could hear your voiceAnd watch you make artWith lips so red from kissing.And I fell in love with it.

"Listen to her read poems in French."Has been amended to "Listen to her speak."